TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ARTHUR MACMILLAN A picture shows Baghdad International Airport on April 24, 2010. More than a decade of UN sanctions followed Saddam Hussein's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, which closed down Iraq's airports and forced travellers to take the long, costly and at times perilous overland route from Amman. Billions of dollars are needed to upgrade the airport's interior, passenger facilities and infrastructure so that it is on a par with Dubai, the only Middle East airport in the world's top-30 in terms of passenger numbers. AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI (Photo by ALI AL-SAADI / AFP)
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